Ren Zhengfei at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, in 2015. He has built Huawei into a company with annual revenue of more than $100 billion.

Ren Zhengfei at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, in 2015. He has built Huawei into a company with annual revenue of more than $100 billion.

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Who is Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei?

As he spent decades building one of the biggest tech companies on the planet, Ren Zhengfei kept a low public profile.